Faculty

Professor and Department Chair
- Office:Â ST 816
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýanna.joaquin@csun.edu
- Phone: 818-677-6319
- Interests: first and second language acquisition, neurobiology of language, TESL pedagogy, language socialization, discourse analysis

- Professor and Associate Chair
- M.A. TESL Graduate Advisor
- Office: ST 808
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýstephanie.kim@csun.edu
- Phone: 818-677-0907
- Interests:Â conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, TESL/TEFL pedagogy, qualitative methods
Professor
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýrebecca.litke@csun.edu
- Interests: ethnography and communication, qualitative methods, intercultural communication

Professor
- Office: ST 806
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýkenneth.luna@csun.edu
- Interests:Â phonetics, acoustics, laboratory phonology, intonation, prosodic typology, Sp_ToBI, Caribbean linguistics, Romance linguistics

Professor
- Office:Â ST 812
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýdavid.medeiros@csun.edu
- Phone: 818-677-3410
- Interests:Â syntax, syntax/semantics interface, morphology, Polynesian linguistics

Associate Professor
M.A. LING Graduate Advisor
- Office: ST 814
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýlaura.hirrel@csun.edu
- Phone: 818-677-5019
- Interests:Â cognitive-functional approaches to the study of language meaning, co-speech gestures, construction grammar, and language documentation

Assistant Professor
- Office:Â ST 818
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýmoira.saltzman@csun.edu
- Phone: 818-677-5025
- Interests:Â Language contact and language change, sociophonetics, Koreanic languages, minoritized languages and language revitalization

Professor
- Office:Â JR 121B
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýana.sanchezmunoz@csun.edu
- Interests:Â language variation and change, sociolinguistics, language contact, bilingualism, Spanish in the U.S.

Associate Professor
- Office: ST 810
- ·¡³¾²¹¾±±ô:Ìýhyungjo.yoon@csun.edu
- Phone: 818-677-3563
- Interests:Â second language writing, task-based language teaching, corpus linguistics, and computational text analysis